Assessment of absorbed dose in digital and MIRD phantoms by MCNP in thorax area

International Journal of Low Radiation

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 110-120

  Kamali Asl, A ^a   Agha Mohammad Hassan, M ^b   Aghamiri, S M ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Digital phantom; Dose point kernel; DPK; Internal dose; MCNP; Medical internal radiation dose; MIRD; Monte Carlo N particle; Simulation; Voxel

Indexed keywords

RADIOISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DOSIMETRY; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MEDICAL INTERNAL RADIATION DOSE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOM; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 77951776494     PISSN: 14776545     EISSN: 17419190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLR.2010.032814     Document Type: Article

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